For this specific one, I would personally choose riding a bus, instead of walking, but I also think that is the wrong choice. Just because I prefer it, doesn't mean that it is the right thing, I agree that walking is better. If it's like just 30-40 minutes of walk, every morning and every evening you should walk, that would be 1 hour of walk everyday and you would get much healthier.
It is not about money, sure you would save some, but how expensive can a bus ride be? It would basically be cheap, so it is not about money at all. But if you can walk everyday, and keep doing that five times a week, then you are going to get a lot more and you will do a lot better and your body will thank you for it. I wish I could walk an hour everyday, it would be so great.
The bus is cheap. So it's not money. And 30-40 minutes isn't that painful. So it's not really time either. Which is to say, we're looking at something else completely. That's more difficult to name because it doesn't have a clean label.
Comfort infrastructure. That's as close as I have to a name I have for it. We've built up so many systems around reducing friction, that the friction itself becomes like a problem to solve, even when the friction was the point. Even where the friction was good for us. Even when when we remove it slowly makes us worse people over a very, very long period of time in ways we don't notice until we look back.
And we don't look back enough. That's a whole other issue but related.
I wish I was the type of person to walk everyday. Walking isn't hard. Becoming the sort of person who always does hard things, even little hard things, that's the actual project. The walk is almost besides the point.
Thirty minutes. Both ways, an hour, yeah. Your grandparents didn't do just that to get water. I'm not saying suffer. I'm saying that the baseline of what we call effort has fallen so far that we've begun calling a morning walk aspirational.
The bus is fine. It'll get you there. But "there" is just a location. The walk was taking you to somewhere different.